“Life is simple," I said. "Ale, women, sword, and reputation. Nothing else matters.”
Bernard Cornwell book The Pale Horseman
Source: The Pale Horseman
Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter
“Life is simple," I said. "Ale, women, sword, and reputation. Nothing else matters.”
Bernard Cornwell book The Pale Horseman
Source: The Pale Horseman
“Your explanation depresses me,"" I said.
""Your nonsense depresses me,"" said Simple.”
Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist
Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer
Canto 5, "Byckerment"
Phantasmagoria (1869)
“I know I had everything, but not because I had it. I know because afterwards I had nothing else.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Que tuve todo lo sé, no por lo que tuve. Lo sé porque después no tuve más.
Voces (1943)
Michael Haneke (1942) Austrian film director and screenwriter
as interviewed by Richard Porton, "Collective Guilt and Individual Responsibility: An Interview with Michael Haneke," Cineaste, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Winter 2005), pp. 50-51